Now in its thirteenth year, PhotoIreland Festival’s 2022 iteration, titled ‘Opening The Gates’, has, with a fine balance of determination and nuance, taken on the task of surveying the field of (art) photography in Ireland. The central and immensely impressive exhibition is ‘Images Are All We Have’ – adapting a phrase often attributed to Beckett and turning on the hopefully waning sense that Irish cultural production is, or has been, dominated by ‘words’. ‘Images Are All We Have’, along with several attached exhibitions, was shown in the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland in The Printworks at Dublin Castle, with an even more ambitious remit than its previous version in … Continue reading Critique | PhotoIreland Festival 2022